Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:04:09PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> network packets are normally processed by the network packet interrupt's >>> softirq or alternatively in the NAPI poll loop. >> If we have a high priority task, ksoftirqd may not get a chance to run. > > In this case the next interrupt will also process them. It will just > go more slowly because interrupts limit the work compared to ksoftirqd.
I realize that they will eventually get processed. My point is that the documentation (in-kernel, online, and in various books) says that softirqs will be processed _on the return from a syscall_. As we all agree, this is not necessarily the case. Chris _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
